blind curve
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- noun
- /blaɪnd kɜrv/
:
curva ciega
- Drivers must slow down at the blind curve to avoid accidents since they can't see oncoming traffic.
- a blind curve on the road
- blind curves at high speed
- coming around a blind curve
Examples
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"Some bicyclists spun around a blind curve, sending them scurrying aside, giving him a moment to pick his words.
Fiction book (2002) -
HAMERSLEY flies into a blind curve.
Fiction book (1998) -
Her car had been hit by a teenager on a blind curve.
Fiction book (1995) -
The semi slid around a blind curve, drifting into the other lane.
Fiction book (1993) -
Quentin was still going too fast when they came around a blind curve that concealed a sandy wash.
Fiction book (2000) -
D) The logging truck roars around a blind curve.
Fiction book (1997) -
It took me years of kvetching at my new Oregon hubby to slow down going around blind curves for two reasons.
Blog text (24) -
The cleared passageway was just barely wide enough for two teams to pass each other, and heaven help the teamster who swung too wide on a blind curve.
Fiction book (1992) -
He was poring over sardine statistics on the evening of 7 May 1948 when he decided to take a dinner break, drove off in his dilapidated car, and was hit by a freight train coming around a blind curve.
Academic text (2007) -
The gas line on the car was plugged, and we'd go about a mile, then get out and blow the thing out with the tire pump, all this to be imagined in the blackest night with other cars hurtling around Deep Creek's blind curves at our gasping Ford.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
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A corner on a road where drivers cannot see around because something blocks the view
A curve in a road you cannot see around when driving
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from 'blind' (obscuring sight) + 'curve' (a bend in the road); a 'blind curve' straightforwardly denotes a bend that blocks the driver's view. This adjective–noun composition follows common compounding patterns and appears similarly in other languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Blind curve comes from the simple image of a road bend where the curve hides what is ahead and the blind part means you 'cannot see'. That's why a blind curve tells drivers to slow down, because the bend 'blocks the view' so you must be careful.